Re: will not accept super user password

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 17:53 -0800, Bob Kashani wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:35 +0000, Jim Maas wrote:
> > I can't get past the request for the su password. I suppose this is 
> > something weird to do with this Debian sudo su system?  I've even gone 
> > into the directory gnome-system-monitor-2.9.91 and compiled and 
> > installed it as su but garnome will still not go past this step.  Any 
> > suggestions?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> > 
> > [===== NOW BUILDING:    gnome-system-monitor-2.9.91     =====]
> >         [fetch] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
> >         [checksum] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
> >         [extract] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
> >         [patch] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
> >  ==> Gnome-system-monitor requires libgnomesu
> >  ==> You need to be root to install libgnomesu
> >  ==> Please provide the root password
> > Password:
> > su: Authentication failure
> > Sorry.
> >  *** If you do not have root access then you need to
> >  *** rm -rf gnome-system-monitor libgnomesu
> > make[1]: *** [pre-configure] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory 
> > `/home/jamaas/downloads/garnome-2.9.91.1/desktop/gnome-system-monitor'
> > make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2
> 
> Just comment the pre-configure section in desktop/gnome-system-
> monitor/Makefile.
> 
> What version of Debian are you running (stable/testing/unstable)?
> 
> What happens is you run su from the command line? Does it work?

What happens if you run:

su -m -c ls

Bob

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Bob Kashani
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